“Don t be so busy missing people who left that you miss the people that are standing right in front of you.”
“Ljudi su posebna vrsta. U stanju su da se gledaju svakog dana, a da se ne vide.”
“U kakvoj drzavi zivimo, dobro je sto jos uvek zivimo.”
“Ponekad se dva slomljena dela savrseno uklope zajedno.”
“The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren t the ones people see on the outside. They re the ones that make us bleed internally.”
“When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person s life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”
“We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What s even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don t even know who they are themselves.”
“Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.”
“You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it s not true. Generally, people don t like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.”
“Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.”
“There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched. We separate.”
“No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It s very easy to judge someone else s actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.”
“When we re connected to others, we become better people.”
“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn t change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”